PSYC 40 Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

Your brain is composed of low-precision, slow, sparsely-connected computing elements, yet it outperforms any extant computer on tasks ranging from perception to planning. Computational Neuroscience has as its twin goals the scientific understanding of how brains compute thought, and the engineering capability to reconstruct the identified computations. Topics in the class included anatomical circuit design, physiological operating rules, evolutionary derivation, mathematical analyses, and emergent behavior, as well as development of applications from robotics to medicine.

Instructor

Granger

Cross Listed Courses

COGS 021 COSC 016

Prerequisite

One of: PSYC 1, PSYC 6, COSC 1, or ENGS 20.

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SCI

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Offered

• Fall